Trio wins Nobel chemistry prize for ‘world’s smallest machines’

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2016 has been awarded to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa for developing molecular machine.

Announcing the Prize on Wednesday in Stockholm, a statement from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said, ‘The development of computing demonstrates how the miniaturisation of technology can lead to a revolution.

The 2016 Nobel laureates in Chemistry have miniaturised machines and taken chemistry to a new dimension.’

The Academy says molecular machines ‘will most likely be used in the development of things such as new materials, sensors and energy storage systems’, reports THE HINDU.

‘They have developed molecules with controllable movements, which can perform a task when energy is added... Molecular machines will most likely be used in the development of things such as new materials, sensors and energy storage systems,’ it said.